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British Pathé Film Clips of Rivers and Canals A new feature giving access to newsreel film clips from the early twentieth century that can be searched by date or waterway to find the appropriate link to the Pathé website and a listing of Waterway Events of 2012 are now available. If you are organising a UK canal or river event that you would like added to this list please let me know.

Today's Featured Waterway Photo

Wigan Top Lock No 65
For more information see Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

The Boat Listing, which now includes Broads Authority boats, added in 2009, was last updated in Spring 2011. See also the new Most Popular Boat Names listing, based on the 89,000 boats in the Boat Listing.

If you are a newcomer to the subject, or this web site, you may want to start with my Introduction pages. These give an introduction to this website, the UK Waterways System, its history and to inland boating on canals or rivers.

Escape from Microsoft - my experiences with Linux.

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Books, videos, DVDs and links to other canal shopping sites.

For non-waterway travel photographs see www.jim-shead.net

I am also webmaster for the following waterways sites Railway & Canal Historical Society
IWA Peterborough Branch
The Association of Nene River Clubs
House of York

All about the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) click here

Quote of the day No 272

Monday 6 February 2012

Among those who read Narrow Boat was author Robert Aickman. His interest in waterways had been aroused in the late 1930s when, during the course of visits to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, he had taken a walk along the towpath of the Stratford Canal as far as Wilmcote. He was puzzled: no boats, collapsing installations, weeds everywhere, many threatening notices in the name of the Great Western Railway. In 1945 he corresponded with, and then visited, Rolt. As a result, in 1946 the Inland Waterways Association was formed, with Rolt as secretary and Aickman as chairman. Aickman was to lead its campaign for the next eighteen and a half years. By 1949 the association had over 800 members; by 1960, about 2,500; by 1966, more than 4,250; and in 1973, 11,000. To limit members’ liability, the association was incorporated in 1958 as a company limited by guarantee, with neither share capital nor distribution of profits. It has been registered as a charity.

P. J. G. Ransom - Waterways Restored

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